Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-06
THE WOMEN,s BOARD.
Its Meetings in New Haven Next
 Week.

Its Meetings in New Haven Next
 Week.
 The annual meeting of the Women's Board of Missions will be held in the Church of the Redeemer on Wednesday and Thursday, January 12 and 13, with public meeting on Wednesday evening. To those in attendance upon this meeting free return tickets will be given over the Housatonic and the New Ha- ven and Northampton railroads. Free return checks will be given over the Connecticut River road, which must be obtained of the conductors while passengers route to New Haven. Excursion tickets at special rates will be issued by the Boston and Albany and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads, including the Shore and Air Line divisions of the latter named road The free return checks and the return portion of ex- cursion tickets must be countersigned by the secretary at the time and place of meeting. The following the reductions in rates:
 Boston $4.75 South Birmingham S4.15, worces- ter B 5o Springfield Sl55 & m S1 & s4 Suf1eid windsor Locks Sl So "estoroos SSe' New London $1.5o. Milford 3oc, stratford $s5e ain 72c Middletown 85c. WilIimantic $1.e9. Meriden 45c, WaIlingford BOG, Branford soc, Stony Creek port 45c Fairfield 55c, Southport 60c westport 72c South Norwalk soc, Stamford $1, New Canaan $1 30, New York SI.75.
 ABOUT THE MISSION BOARD AND ITS WORK. The Woman's Board of Missions is the handmaid or assistant of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the foreign missionary society of the Con- gregational denomination in the United States The Woman's Board was organized | in Boston nearly twenty years ago at time | when 8 large and increasing number of young | ladies were required to carry on the work of | the missions, for which special depart ment was needed. Of course women best understand women. The selecting and | sending out ladies who go alone or in | small companies to such important | work requires rare wisdom and the greatest | care. These missionaries in 8 foreign conn., try and among degraded people are expected | to inaugurate or to conduct schools. asy-
 lums for waifs and higher institutions of | learning for women, as we'll as dispensaries | for women and children, and all such Chris 1 tian and philanthropic work women can | do. The experimenting and conducting of | all this department of missionary work the American Board has now given to the Wo- mans Board. To raise funds auxiliary soci- | cities and circles of young ladies and of chil- dren have been organized in nearly every | Congregational church, and the women of | | sustain the Woman's Board, and thus help to fulfill the command of the Saviour to go into all the world ard carry the gospel to every creature. In these twenty years the | Woman's Board has grown into large and important share of the work. Its receipts
 last year were over $13a, ,000 This sum with | the addition of the income of the Board of the Interior and of the Pacific, which have been the outgrowth of this Board, makes the
 largest income of any society for carrying the gospel to heathen women. Much of the management of the business of this society l is done by volunteer workers, and the cost of 1 administration is only 2.6 per cent. of it's in-
 come. Over one hundred missionaries, a large number of Bible women, teachers and schools and several dispensaries are supported, in- cluding nearly all the work of the American
 Board for women and girls.
 With two exceptions the annual meeting of this Board has been held in Boston. This year the Nsw Haven branch of the society,
 one of it's earliest and strongest branches, has invited the mother Board to meet here
 and next week this city is to have the rare privilege of welcoming the Wonans Board
 of Missions. Delegates are expected from all the New England and Middle States and the District of Columbia, and large numbers of ladies from the immediate vicinity and other
 near cities and towns. The public meetings | commence on Wednesday morning in the l Church of the Redeemer, corner of Orange and Wall streets; and will continue two days.